“50 Books To Prepare You For the Next 50 Years - Making predictions can be tough — Exhibit A, Harold Camping. But while prophesying the end of the world always ends badly (or always has in the past, anyway), there is such a thing as an educated guess. Prognosticators, futurists, and run-of-the-mill experts are often proved right by viewing the existing data and projecting it into tomorrow, or 50 years from now. To make ready for the next half century, check out some of these 50 books on everything from business to the biology of the future.”
“International Futures (IFs) is a large-scale, long-term, integrated global modeling system. It represents demographic, economic, energy, agricultural, socio-political, and environmental subsystems for 183 countries interacting in the global system. The central purpose of IFs is to facilitate exploration of global futures through alternative scenarios. The model is integrated with a large database containing values for its many foundational data series since 1960. Through this web site IFs is freely available to users both on-line and in downloadable form.”
Even if you dont want to become a futurist thinker, you should nevertheless try to achieve as many goals as possible. It will make you a second renaissance man, learned in many different disciplines, cultivated and broad-thinking. NOTE TO SELF: Follow this rules and strive to learn a little bit of those aspects where my ignorance is total.